Primary care physicians fail basic competence tests — expand the pipeline 10×
A LessWrong post argues primary care physicians systematically underperform on diagnosis accuracy, medical knowledge, patient attention, and measurable health outcomes.
Root cause: credentialism creates artificial scarcity. The solution is to make PCP training roughly 10 times easier to lower the barrier and flood the market with candidates.
The premise: if PCPs actually met their own job description, they would reliably diagnose, stay current with training standards, show empathy, and deliver better outcomes than no care.